Photography at the dock : essays on photographic history, institutions, and practices / Abigail Solomon-Godeau ; foreword by Linda Nochlin.
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail.
1991
TR642 .S65 1991 (Mapit)
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Title Photography at the dock : essays on photographic history, institutions, and practices / Abigail Solomon-Godeau ; foreword by Linda Nochlin.
Author Solomon-Godeau, Abigail.
ISBN 9780816619146 paperback
081661914X paperback
9780816619139
0816619131
Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1991.
Language English
Description xxxiv, 322 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Call Number TR642 .S65 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 770
Summary "[E]xamines the politics - both implicit and explicit - that inform photographic criticism, history, and practice. It is a revisionist approach to the medium's history, a critique of photographic modernism and the institutions that promote it, and a feminist exploration of the camera's role in producing (and reproducing) dominant social and sexual ideologies. Drawing from cultural theory, feminism, art theory, and the history of photography, Solomon-Godeau examines relations among ideology, representation, and camera culture in a variety of ways. She begins with a critique of the role of cultural institutions, art historians, collectors, and dealers in constructing histories of photography that privilege modernist aesthetics at the expense of history and context. The section of the book considers the place of photography within postmodernism. The third section concerns the politics that inform traditional documentary practices as well as those underlying more recent work that attempts to renovate and revitalize the form. Finally, Solomon-Godeau examines the sexual politics of photography in the context of contemporary feminist theory and art practice." -- Cover flap.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-305) and index.
Series Media & society ; 4.
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